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Selection of DNA barcoding loci and phylogenetic study of a medicinal and endemic plant, Plectranthus asirensis J.R.I. Wood from Saudi Arabia

F. Al-Qurainy, Khan, S., Nadeem, M., Tarroum, M., and Al-Ameri, A., Selection of DNA barcoding loci and phylogenetic study of a medicinal and endemic plant, Plectranthus asirensis J.R.I. Wood from Saudi Arabia, vol. 13, pp. 6184-6190, 2014.

Genuine medicinal plant materials are very important for potential crude drug production, which can be used to cure many human diseases. DNA barcoding of medicinal plants is an effective way to identify adulterated or contaminated market materials, but it can be quite challenging to generate barcodes and analyze the data to determine discrimination power. The molecular phylogeny of a plant species infers its relationship to other species.

Identification of quantitative trait loci conferring blast resistance in Bodao, a japonica rice landrace

J. Huan, Bao, Y. M., Wu, Y. Y., Zeng, G. Y., He, W. W., Dang, L. L., Wang, J. F., and Zhang, H. S., Identification of quantitative trait loci conferring blast resistance in Bodao, a japonica rice landrace, vol. 13, pp. 9756-9765, 2014.

Bodao, a japonica landrace from the Taihu Lake region of China, is highly resistant to most Chinese isolates of Magnaporthe oryzea, a form of rice blast. To effectively dissect the influence of genetics on this blast resistance, a population of 155 recombinant inbred lines (F2:8) derived from a cross of Bodao x Suyunuo was inoculated with 12 blast isolates. Using a quantitative trait locus (QTL) mapping approach, 13 QTL on chromosomes 1, 2, 9, 11, and 12 were detected from Bodao.

Assessment of phylogenetic relationship of rare plant species collected from Saudi Arabia using internal transcribed spacer sequences of nuclear ribosomal DNA

F. Al-Qurainy, Khan, S., Nadeem, M., Tarroum, M., and Alaklabi, A., Assessment of phylogenetic relationship of rare plant species collected from Saudi Arabia using internal transcribed spacer sequences of nuclear ribosomal DNA, vol. 12, pp. 723-730, 2013.

The rare and endangered plants of any country are important genetic resources that often require urgent conservation measures. Assessment of phylogenetic relationships and evaluation of genetic diversity is very important prior to implementation of conservation strategies for saving rare and endangered plant species. We used internal transcribed spacer sequences of nuclear ribosomal DNA for the evaluation of sequence identity from the available taxa in the GenBank database by using the Basic Local Alignment Search Tool (BLAST).

Testing the performance of automated annotation of ESTs with the Kegg Orthology (KO) database demonstrates lack of completeness of clusters

G. R. Fernandes, Mudado, M. A., and Ortega, J. M., Testing the performance of automated annotation of ESTs with the Kegg Orthology (KO) database demonstrates lack of completeness of clusters, vol. 7, pp. 948-957, 2008.

The KEGG Orthology (KO) database was tested as a source for automated annotation of expressed sequence tags (ESTs). We used a control experiment where every EST was assigned to its cognate protein, and an annotation experiment where the ESTs were annotated by proteins from other organisms. Analyzing the results, we could assign classes to the annotation: correct, changed and speculated. The correct annotation ranged from 57 (Caenorhabditis elegans) to 81% (Homo sapiens). In spite of the changed annotation being low (1 in H.

An I/O device driver for bioinformatics tools: the case for BLAST

R. Campos Mauro and Lifschitz, S., An I/O device driver for bioinformatics tools: the case for BLAST, vol. 4, pp. 563-570, 2005.

There are many bioinformatics tools that deal with input/output (I/O) issues by using filing systems from the most common operating systems, such as Linux or MS Windows. However, as data volumes increase, there is a need for more efficient disk access, ad hoc memory management and specific page-replacement policies. We propose a device driver that can be used by multiple applications. It keeps the application code unchanged, providing a non-intrusive and flexible strategy for I/O calls that may be adopted in a straightforward manner.

Evaluation of window cohabitation of DNA sequencing errors and lowest PHRED quality values

F. Prosdocimi, Peixoto, F. Cruz, and Ortega, J. Miguel, Evaluation of window cohabitation of DNA sequencing errors and lowest PHRED quality values, vol. 3, pp. 483-492, 2004.

When analyzing sequencing reads, it is important to distinguish between putative correct and wrong bases. An open question is how a PHRED quality value is capable of identifying the miscalled bases and if there is a quality cutoff that allows mapping of most errors. Considering the fact that a low quality value does not necessarily indicate a miscalled position, we decided to investigate if window-based analyses of quality values might better predict errors.

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